Boubacar Barry (historian)

Boubacar Barry
Born1943
Guinea
NationalitySenegalese
Occupation(s)Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
EmployerCheikh Anta Diop University
Notable work
  • Le royaume du Waalo, le Sénégal avant la conquête
 * La Sénégambie du XVe au XIXe siècle: traite négrière, Islam et conquête coloniale
* Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa
Awards
  • 2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association
* 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association

Boubacar Barry (born 1943 in Guinea) is a Senegalese Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association,[1] and he was selected as the 2016 honorary member of the American Historical Association.[2]

  1. ^ "Distinguished Africanist Award". africanstudies.org. African Studies Association. 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. ^ Klein, Martin (Nov 1, 2016). "AHA Activities Boubakar Barry, Historian of Senegambia, Selected as 2016 Honorary Foreign Member". historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved 27 October 2022.